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After much testing, Google has seem to officially drop the seven local results in the web search results and gone with a 3-pack block.

For all the queries I try that would generate...

It is that time of the month again, where I recap the most important topics (in my opinion) for webmasters related to Google core organic search topics.

The biggest item by far is the launch of the Google Panda 4.2 update...

Google was granted a patent this week that about how Google may rank some search results.

The patent appears to be aimed at video content, but it tells us that it might be applied to how long someone might watch a page, after they’ve been...

I wrote an article on analytics and usability testing for the UserVoice blog, so I wanted to share it here as well. From How = What + Why (Or, Where to Start Improving Your User Experience):

The first thing to clear up is this: in order to know where to start to improve the user experience of your product, you’re going to need more than a single data source. No single method can tell you the whole story you need to make good decisions. Usability testing will show you where there are...

After much speculation over time, and finally introducing a beta, Google has officially announced the new Search Analytics API for the Google Search Console...

It seems like the black hat SEO community is noticing a Google update this weekend. Starting Saturday through yesterday.

There is a lot of chatter in the Black Hat Forums and just a little bit of chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums...

I was excited to see a Google Patent granted this past Thursday, which describes how Google may rank pages in part based upon user feedback (clicks) in response to rankings for those pages. The patent tells us that this kind of identifying of a...

When Google rolled out Panda 4.2 they told me this will roll out over months and months, a very slow roll out. It was just technically how this roll out was happening they told me.

John Mueller in a Google+ Hangout added more things on record about why it is rolling out slowly...

Google's John Mueller in this mornings Google Hangout said at the 4:37 mark into the video that Google doesn't tend to give advice around algorithms.

Yes, for manual actions...